Joel D. Hirst’s Blog – Gritty observations by a novelist and playwright, and a first-hand observer to the mess in Venezuela.

Primitive Technology – A regular guy in Queensland, Australia who makes “…things in the wild completely from scratch using no modern tools or materials.” And posts videos about the process. Definitely worth watching.

Rough Type – by Nicholas Carr, who writes on technology, culture and economics. He is the author of “The Shallows” which I strongly recommend reading.